Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai speaks out

Africa’s political tragedies are loaded with regular doses of instability forced onto a people by rogue nationalists who block essential freedoms and narrow political activity, writes Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai in the Zimbabwe Observer. Tsvangirai asks - and answers - the questions: What are you up to when you shut the door to the sole democratic passage to development? When a regime seals off the country and shrinks the democratic space to the barest minimum, what does it expect the people to do? Do you prepare and participate in an election when you know the result? How do you restore the people’s confidence in a climate of insecurity, fear and, above all, when there is no guarantee that your vote can make a difference? Why waste time?